[spireitematt]

All plagues / epidemics have to run their course, Matt. Even the Black Death was around for less than a year in this country before it petered out; and that was before the days of vaccines.

I may have missed it but I don`t think I`ve heard any suggestion that somebody who develops the antibodies to deal with it once they`ve recovered is necessarily a carrier and can infect others; in fact, I thought that the whole principle of `herd immunity`was based on the idea that they aren`t and can`t.

You may be right about there being a second or third wave. Nobody knows. What`s sure as eggs is eggs, though, is that there will be another pandemic somewhere, sometime in the future. Pestilence has always been around and always will be.

By the way. On another tack completely, when I was reading your post just now before I logged in there was `1 guest` (me, presumably) and `1 invisible user`. Any idea what that`s about? Never seen it before.

I was on about people being asymptomatic who could be a carrier.

An invisible user is someone who has an account but is hiding there identity on here. I know 2 users on here who use the invisible user so it's probably one of them.